Adapted from another novel by Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale. There are only six episodes of the TV series, and the main cast is an all-female team, which is much more delicate than "The Handmaid's Tale". This is the story of a real woman. The story is based on a real crime incident in Canada in the 1840s. Grace is real, and she's indicted for her involvement in two murders. She is accused of killing her employer, Kinnear, and Kinnear's housekeeper, Nancy, with McDermott, the valet.
The femme fatale is always more eye-catching and more reminiscent.
A group of gentlemen and dame founded an organization aimed at lobbying the authorities to release Grace. They found Grace innocent, even though Grace pleaded guilty in court and was sentenced to life in prison. The local priest hired Jordan, a psychiatrist from the United States, in the hope that he could judge Grace and, more importantly, produce a report of Grace's innocence.
Although Grace is still in prison, she helps out at the warden's house every day. Whenever the warden's wife held a tea party, Grace would be called to show it. This is easy to understand. In the lives of ladies, what else is left other than shouting about anecdotes and anecdotes?
The execution ground was overcrowded as the alleged accomplice McDermott was being dealt with publicly hanged. Among them, there are many figures of ladies.
"There are also quite a few well-bred ladies, and everyone is staring intently. They want to inhale death like haute couture."
In this sense, Grace, surrounded by the breath of death, is a limited edition top perfume.
Grace Grace claims to have no recollection of what happened at the time of the murder. Did she use her charm to instruct McDermott to kill? Is she the principal or the accomplice? Is there an unclear relationship between her and McDermott and Kinnear? What kind of state of mind did she wear when she ran away wearing the dress of Nancy who was killed?
Dr. Jordan uses talk therapy in an attempt to extract useful information from Grace's words while helping Grace regain her lost memory. As the conversation between Grace and Dr. Jordan unfolds, Grace's life is gradually pieced together. Piece after piece, like the quilt that Grace has been sewing.
In Canada at that time, every woman had to sew a quilt by hand before she got married, because the bed was so important to a woman. Life, death, and wedding night.
"Some call it love, some call it despair, and it can be the insult that one has to go through. "
Grace's quilt consists of three pieces, a petticoat from her good friend Mary, a dress from the dead Nancy, and a pyjama she wore in prison.
Mary was Grace's first and only best friend. In modern parlance, Mary was a progressive-minded maid. She didn't just follow her employer's orders, she was rebellious, she knew how to protect herself, and she warned Grace not to trust men's words, they could say anything to achieve their goals.
But it was such an enthusiastic girl who was deceived by the owner's young boy, like the little maids in our house fighting drama, and became pregnant with a child. Mary went to a showdown with the young master, and the young master gave her five dollars as a hush money. Mary went to a private clinic for an abortion and died of a massive hemorrhage.
"I don't blame anyone for feeling lonely. "
After Mary's death, the owner was afraid that Grace's silence would reveal a family scandal. Without Mary, the young master turned his attention to Grace.
Grace could only leave and come to Kinnear's house. The relationship between Kinnear and Nancy is unclear, so although Nancy is a maid, she can wear a Chinese dress with panniers and gold earrings. Nancy was uncertain, her attitude toward Grace was up and down.
Nancy finds out that Kinnear has unsavory thoughts about Grace, and at the same time, she finds out she's pregnant. Nancy knew that it was always the case with men, that interest shifted from pregnant women to younger women. She fears that she will be replaced by Grace, and threatens to drive Grace away.
Nancy had been pregnant before and the child died as soon as she was born. She was spotted by Kinnear and brought back. Whether she wanted to or not, she could only follow Kinnear. Otherwise, she would have to become a prostitute and die of illness a year or two later. If replaced by Grace, Nancy's fate can only be so. She can only desperately defend her territory.
"When you're in the middle of a story, the story isn't a story, it's just a clutter, a roar in the dark, a bout of blindness, the remains of shattered glass and splintered wood."
Grace was not confused by the rhetoric of the young master like Mary, she insisted. But what is waiting for her?
Be Nancy, and within a few years, she'll be replaced by a younger, second "Grace." But if she doesn't get a recommendation letter from her employer (ie, Nancy), she's likely to find her next job and become a waterman's prostitute.
If she was married, the only man who would marry her would be McDermott, the servant. McDermott, like Grace's dad, was an alcoholic, bragging, and unprofessional. Having watched her mother die, Grace knew what the future awaited her.
"Even though I rammed into the walls, screamed, cried, and begged God to let me out, the train didn't listen and was locked tightly. "
Grace's father tried to rape her, the young master of the former owner tried to pry open her bedroom door, Kinnear stared at her, McDermott sexually harassed her with words from the first meeting, the jailer in the prison Speaking foul to her, the lawyer boasted that Grace had seduced herself. The pastor wants to save her. As for the rescue, who can not be attracted by Black Widow?
" He doesn't understand that sin doesn't come from what you've done, but from what other people have done to you. "
Even Dr. Jordan did. During the conversation, Dr. Jordan was attracted by the calm and wise Grace, he wanted to tear off Grace's mask, and he wanted to see Grace's surrender. But he never dared to face his own desires.
What about Grace? Why doesn't she love him?
He's handsome, educated, and willing to listen to her. Although it is not specified, there is no doubt that Grace and Dr. Jordan are both in love with each other. Grace wants the consultation to be as long and as long as possible to give her more time with Dr. Jordan. Therefore, Grace's memories are so trivial, so both true and false.
"No matter what I say, even if I tell the truth, people will be wronged. But I now feel as if everything I say is true. As long as I say it, no matter what I say, Dr. Jordan will smile and write it down and write it down. Tell me it's a good talk. "
Dr. Jordan's treatment was slow because he never really got to know Grace. Dr. Jordan, from a wealthy family, wanted to start a mental hospital. Because of his father's bankruptcy, his life is not as good as before. He desperately needed a sensational case like Grace to make his name known.
But when he encountered a little difficulty, he backed away. When he found that he couldn't break Grace for the time being, he took the landlady who took the initiative to embrace as Grace's stand-in. When he knew the landlady's husband was coming back, he fled overnight.
Unfortunately, Grace had already opened up to him at that time. It's just that he didn't pay attention.
"A feeling of being torn apart. It's not the feeling of being torn apart because it doesn't hurt. It's the feeling of a peach being torn apart. It's not being torn apart at all, but the peach is so ripe that it splits on its own. .The peaches have a peach pit in them. ”
Atwood's women are always like this, fragile, powerless, but dazzlingly strong. The novel keeps changing the narrative perspective, and the story is like Grace's quilt, one piece after another. Very interesting writing. It may seem trivial at the beginning, but if you read it, it will be like reading any detective novel. You can't wait to know whether Grace is a criminal or not, and what clues Dr. Jordan has discovered. The love between Grace and Dr. Jordan will be the same. What shape ends up.
By the end of the reading, you will find that none of this matters.
"I'm like sand, I'm like snow - someone else has written and written on it, and it's smooth with a swipe."
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